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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How Edgar Wright Ending Up Directing The Running Man Thanks to a Tweet · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest sistany Tanya.
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  Speaker 2: When we make a poster a comment on social media,
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  Speaker 2: what's the most we typically expect will come of it?
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  Speaker 1: Likes?
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  Speaker 3: I mean maybe a little engagement, some praise.
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  Speaker 4: How about landing your dream job as a director.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I would take that over a few likes.
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  Speaker 2: So let me talk about Edgar Wright. He's a filmmaker.
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  Speaker 2: You know his movie He's a Baby Driver, Sean and
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  Speaker 2: the Dead ant Man, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, his movies have tons of different styles.
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  Speaker 2: You've probably seen some of those. He also likes to
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  Speaker 2: engage with movie fans online. Now, back in twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: when X was still Twitter, he saw this random tweet
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  Speaker 2: asking what movie people would like to remake the most.
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  Speaker 4: He replied, the Running Man.
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  Speaker 5: That movie right, the original which Schwarzenegger is an eighties
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  Speaker 5: classic that.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't faithful to Stephen King's book, which Edgar loved. So
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  Speaker 2: a movie producer just so happened to read Edgar's comment,
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  Speaker 2: and years later, when he began to develop the remake,
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  Speaker 2: he remembered that tweet and he offered Edgar the job.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that the coolest, that is amazing out there. Put
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  Speaker 4: it out there. They connection. It's meant to be. Edgar
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  Speaker 4: writes The Running Men's now playing that's
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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.